Tony Mann from the University of Greenwich has been appointed Visiting Professor of Computing Mathematics at Gresham College, London. This means he will deliver a series of free public lectures will look at the mathematics of computing, and the computing of mathematics. The lectures will consider what can go wrong, how computers sometimes get the…
Tickets now available for the opening of the Museum of Mathematics in New York
Tickets are now available to the Opening Ceremony of the New York Museum of Mathematics on 12-12-12. Register here: Museum of Mathematics Opening Ceremony.
Historical anniversaries: are they worth celebrating?
It probably hasn’t escaped your attention that this year marks 100 years since Alan Turing was born, and that the actual anniversary of his birth is tomorrow. There is massive interest in this fact, both from specialist maths and computing outlets and the mainstream press. What, though, is the significance? You don’t need me to…
Aperiodcast – 21/06/2012
Here’s another Aperiodcast, covering things that happened on the site between the 4th and the 20th of June. Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS | List of episodes
Ability with fractions and division aged 10 predicts ability with algebra aged 16
Last week we reported that the UK Government have released a draft primary school Programme of Study for mathematics for consultation. A report from the Telegraph quoted in that article mentioned that “the use and multiplication of fractions” was “a vital precursor to studying algebra”. A piece of research published in the journal Psychological Science,…
Instant MathJax preview of LaTeX typed into HTML textareas
I’ve completely rewritten my write maths, see maths library to be a little jQuery plugin that attaches itself to editable areas on pages, like contenteditable elements, textareas, and input boxes. When your cursor is inside some LaTeX, a little preview box appears just above it with the LaTeX rendered through MathJax. I’ve made a demo page…
Math/Maths 101: Ian Stewart Live from the Cheltenham Festival
A new episode of the Math/Maths Podcast has been released. A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter were joined live from the Cheltenham Science Festival by surprise (to everyone involved) special guest Ian Stewart who chatted about the mathematics behind board game strategy, mathematical thinking through…